Quotes About Self-awareness

He was in the far too familiar position of being amazed by his own stupidity.

The place at which the contrast between forms of intelligibility is most vividly presented is in the understanding of ourselves.

Nature is such as to give rise to conscious beings with minds; and it is such as to be comprehensible to such beings. Ultimately therefore such beings should be comprehensible to themselves.

why do men continue to practice in themselves, the absurdities they despise in others? Thomas Paine, The rights of man: being an answer to Mr Burke's attack on the French Revolution (2nd edn, Philadelphia, 1791), p. 41.

Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.

Our own attitudes always seem OK because we use an attitude to judge itself. No matter how much misery our attitudes cause, we will always defend them.

Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him..

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

The best mirror is not that which is most gilded, but that which shows the truest face.

Self-examination [means] setting up a court in [your] conscience and keeping a register there that by strict scrutiny a man may know how things stand between God and his own soul.

This light does that which no other light can. It makes a man perceive himself to be blind.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.

I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it.

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.

If a man has no vices, he's in great danger of making vices out of his virtues, and there's a spectacle. We've all seen them: men who were monsters of philanthropy and women who were dragons of purity. ... No, no - nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modesly around it.

It is difficult, my dear Lucius, to escape becoming the person others believe one to be. A slave is twice enslaved, once by his chains and once again by the glances that fall upon him and say "thou slave.

Puoi dirti vivo solo nei momenti in cui il tuo cuore vede i tesori che possiedi.

You not only live it; but you watch yourself living

El que se precie de conocerse bien y de saber inmediatamente lo que es válido y lo que no lo es, nunca podrá anotarse grandes éxitos en el campo del autoconocimiento. El que, por el contrario, parte de la idea de que cualquier animal de la calle lo conoce mejor de lo que él se conoce, va por buen camino.

We can't be responsible for other people's reactions to us, Lakshmi," she said. "We can only make sure our intentions are good.

bodies, we have never met face-to-face with our kidneys, how we wouldn't recognize our own liver in a row of livers, how we have never seen our own heart or brain.

Two things make us do bad things in life - fear and pride.